Catuḥṣaṣṭi-yoginī Nāmārcana

Catuḥṣaṣṭi-yoginī Nāmārcana is the worship by name of the sixty-four yoginīs: ten thousand eight hundred names composed by Maharṣi Viṣṇu. Each name is given as a ready formula of offering in three layers: Devanāgarī, IAST transliteration and meaning. The book is arranged as a year-long circle of home pūjā: thirty names a day for three hundred and sixty days. The circle runs from the outer enclosure to the inner, eight enclosures of eight yoginīs; each yoginī has five days and a hundred and fifty names of her own, and on the days of the gates all sixty-four are worshipped as one power. The Mother, Śrī Dhūmāvatī, opens and closes the circle. The editors plain instructions c…